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### Is CTR more secure than CBC?

In cryptography, a block cipher mode of operation is an algorithm that uses a block cipher to provide information security such as confidentiality or authenticity. A block cipher by itself is only ...
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### 7zip : Why does encrypting the same file with AES-256 not give the same output?

Using 7-zip 19.00, on Windows 10 1909, build 18363.592, I encrypted a text file with the contents "hello there" using AES-256 and the password "123". I did this two times, the exact same procedure, ...
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### using different IV and SALT with AES-CBC but same KEY

I'm working on this project where a client can send a message, now obviously sending it in plainText is not very smart. So I decided to Encrypt it with AES-CBC. Now, each time I encrypt something, ...
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### Best practices for IV generation

What are the best practices for IV generation for AES and other algorithms? Is RNG enough? What if I cannot use RNG and need to use a variable that is related to some characteristic of the ...
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### Which block cipher parameters should be kept secret?

Which of the parameters of a block cipher (e.g., algorithm name, mode of operation, IV (if any), key length) are essential to keep secret?
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### Why BouncyCastleAesCbcBytesEncryptor is using a salt and an initialization vector?

I'm using the class BouncyCastleAesCbcBytesEncryptor from Spring Security. One of the constructor has the following signature: ...
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### Randomly initialised global counter used to encrypt the kth message with $\operatorname{IV} = \operatorname{IV} + k \hspace{5mm} mod \hspace{5mm} 2^n$ [duplicate]

The use of an increasing IV is not secure for a block cipher. That is, using a random IV for the first message then $\operatorname{IV} + 1$ for the second , $\operatorname{IV}+ 2$ for the 3rd etc. How ...
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### Is it required to use a random IV for AES-CBC with random key per message? [duplicate]

I'm developing a program to encrypt and decrypt a file with AES-256/CBC in Java. And I want it to be safe enough. In my case, I generated random AES key for each file to encrypt and decrypt them. My ...
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### Is it safe to send IV in plain text for every request?

Currently, I am creating a project with an IoT device. This is an offline device which shows a QR code which can be scanned by a mobile device, which sends this code to a server. The server handles ...
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### Simulation of Chosen Plaintext Attack on CBC, Predictable IV with OpenSSL

I would like to simulate the CBC IV attack where the IV is predictable. It's described in the answer to this question: chosen plaintext attack on CBC, predictable iv (Only "Yes" and "No" are valid ...
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### at rest encrypton question from someone who knows nothing

this forum is way above me and the members here are far, far smarter than I am, so this probaby isn't the place to ask such a simple question, but whatever. All I wanted to ask is for at rest ...
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### Attack on AES-CBC with small pool of IV

Let's assume that for encryption with AES in CBC mode we have $IV\in \{0\}^{113}||\{0,1\}^{15}$. I know that if we can predict next IV with 100% probability there is attack that completely breaks ...
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I found some code to get crypto-js to encrypt data in the browser, and with a pointer from someone on SO, it now decodes data as well. My next question is about the use of an IV; is an IV like a salt ...